a tourist in the waking world

500daysofkissingmypillow:

I read because one life isn’t enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody; 
I read because the words that build the story become mine, to build my life; 
I read not for happy endings but for new beginnings; I’m just beginning myself, and I wouldn’t mind a map; 
I read because I have friends who don’t, and young though they are, they’re beginning to run out of material; 
I read because every journey begins at the library, and it’s time for me to start packing; 
I read because one of these days I’m going to get out of this town, and I’m going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready.